Archives: Regional Climate Systems

The Regional Climate Systems Laboratory participated in the Second Training Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling in Southeast Asia held in Hanoi, Vietnam last 22-26 October 2018. The workshop is organized by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, this is the second workshop in...

The Manila Observatory hosted a Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) Training for partner local government units (LGU) of the National Resilience Council (NRC) last 8-10 October 2018. For the first part of the training, 34 participants from LGUs and 11 from five...

Chief Forecaster of the Clouds Aerosols and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) and former technical advisor of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Mr. Ed Fukada visited the Manila Observatory last 11-13 September 2018. On 11-12 September, a workshop on fundamentals of tropical...

This study aims to evaluate the performance of the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF), and the WRF-Hydrological (WRF-Hydro) models in simulating heavy rainfall and streamflow events in Davao City, respectively.

By Ateneo Physics News “Generating and communicating future climate projections from multiple models to inform resilience building in the Philippines,” by Dr Joseph Daron, Science Manager of the International Climate Services Team, UK Met Office. The talk was held on 5 February 2018,...

by Dr. Antonio La Viña Gemma Narisma and I are happy to join the ranks of Directors of the Manila Observatory, a long line that goes all the way to Padre Federico Faura, SJ, the first director of Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila founded in...

24 October 2017 Memo to: The Manila Observatory Community Re: Appointment of Incoming Executive Director for 2018-2020 Message of Thanks to the Incumbent Executive Director I am pleased to announce that in its meeting last 10 October 2017, after due consultation and discernment,...

NASA Chief Scientist Dr. Ellen Stofan visited the Manila Observatory in a meeting last August 28 at the Heyden Hall of the Observatory. This was held with the objectives of strengthening their long-standing relations with the Jesuit institution and expanding to other Philippine...

From 2013, the Regional Climate Systems program worked with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on two projects. In one project “Determining five climate change impacts hotspots agricultural areas in Southeast Asia: Site Selection” under the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)...

The 3rd workshop of the Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling (SEACLID) / Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) Southeast Asia is going to be held from 1 – 2 June 2015 in Manila, Philippines, jointly hosted by the Manila Observatory and the Ateneo...

The RegCM4 Training Workshop for Southeast Asia will be held on 25-29 May 2015 at the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, jointly organized and supported by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Manila Observatory, Ateneo de Manila University,...

The Southeast Asia Regional Climate Downscaling/Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment South East Asia (SEACLID/CORDEX South East Asia) project started in 2012 and evolved from a bottom-up initiative of a group of scientists from five countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines). Currently,...

QUICK SUMMARY Tropical cyclone track and intensity Hagupit moves towards the vicinity of Marinduque, Batangas and Oriental Mindoro (consensus in multi-agency forecast tracks). There are differences in the model forecast on when Hagupit will exit land into the West Philippine Sea. Weakening in...

Filipino scientist Dr. Faye Cruz of the Regional Climate Systems Research Program of the Manila Observatory won best poster award at the recent International Conference on Regional Climate (CORDEX 2013) held in Brussels, Belgium. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the European...

This collaboration between the Manila Observatory and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is one of the activities within the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) project at IRRI. IRRI pursues a comprehensive research agenda on climate change...

In partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Ateneo School of Government, the Manila Observatory used station observations from the province of Nueva Ecija to identify local temperature and rainfall trends for the agriculture sector. This study showed that there...

by: Geonelle Louise Corneby In recent years, typhoons such as Ondoy and Sendong, as well as other natural hazards, have incurred economic losses, massive loss of lives and property and damage to infrastructure. These have, in turn, increased the need for and urgency...